Review: Illuminae

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I did try. Maybe 100 pages wasn't enough of a try. I appreciate that the author put so much work and detail into this thing. But in the end, it was WAY too much. This isn't a novel. It really is a thorough, complex, technical CASE FILE of so many different types of narrative (emails, illustrations, military reports, etc.) that it is nearly impossible for 1 person to digest and appreciate it all. In real life, this case file would be given to a team of analysts to organize and then write up the summary. That's what I want. The summary, the story, and the emotional angle of the characters. But that could just be me.

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